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Executive summary Welcome to your weekly briefing on the metaverse and spatial computing. Here are your snippets to sound smarter in meetings this week: Top story: UK schools turn to VR headsets to tackle rising pupil stress and behaviour challenges (more below). Immersive Wire anniversary party: The Immersive Wire is hosting a party in London to celebrate 10 years, happening on 18 June.

Executive summary Welcome to your weekly briefing on the metaverse and spatial computing. Here are your snippets to sound smarter in meetings this week: Funding: RPR has launched the Galaxy XR Launchpad, offering one organisation $100,000 in studio time to develop a spatial computing pilot for Samsung’s Galaxy XR headset.

Executive summary Welcome to your weekly briefing on the metaverse and spatial computing. Here are your snippets to sound smarter in meetings this week: Top story:Moss is also coming to flat screens (more below). Story: I am writing a major piece on smart glasses. If you can contribute, please reply to this email and ensure it says tom (at) immersivewire (dot) com. Immersive Wire anniversary party: The Immersive Wire is hosting a party in London to celebrate 10 years, happening on 18 June.

Executive summary Welcome to your weekly briefing on the metaverse and spatial computing. Here are your snippets to sound smarter in meetings this week: Top story: Sony Interactive Entertainment has acquired Cinemersive Labs to advance immersive cinematic VR technology and spatial entertainment development, expanding its capabilities in location-based and headset experiences.

Talk about a pivot. After focusing so much on headsets over the last few years, many companies including Apple are now turning their attention to smart glasses; basically a way of seeing the world and receiving contextual information, all supported by AI. This has been a race that Snap has been in for many years, and one that Meta has pioneered via a partnership with EssilorLuxottica.

Microsoft HoloLens was, by all accounts, Microsoft's big leap into XR. After announcing it in 2015 and releasing the developer edition in 2016, followed by a second version in 2019, Microsoft took big jumps in creating a headset that served enterprise customers. It found use in a range of industrial and commercial applications, as well as a lucrative deal with the US Army.

Executive summary Welcome to your weekly briefing on the metaverse and spatial computing. Here are your snippets to sound smarter in meetings this week: Top story: Apple is stepping away from Vision Pro (analysis below). Immersive Wire anniversary party: The Immersive Wire is hosting a party in London to celebrate 10 years, happening on 18 June.

Executive summary Welcome to your weekly briefing on the metaverse and spatial computing.

I am visiting China right now, so in my stead is the lovely Sylvan Shen, who has written a great piece on China’s smart glasses ecosystem for this week. Content will return to normal next week. Have a read of her great piece, and please drop her a message to let her know what you think! Tom Ffiske, Editor of the Immersive Wire Last month I made a short family visit to China during the Spring Festival (my first trip back in almost three years).

Executive summary Welcome to your weekly briefing on the metaverse and spatial computing. Here are your snippets to sound smarter in meetings this week: Top story: Unity and Meta announced an extended multi‑year platform agreement to power VR experiences (more below).